Improvement in bluing-packages



H. SAWYER. Ewing-Package.

,WITNES 5E5 tQ-PE EIiS. PBOTO-UYNOGRAPIEER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNII'EI) STATES PATET HENRY SAWVYER, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN BLUING-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,808, dated December10, 1878; application filed October 3, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SAWYER, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Billing-Packages, of which the following is a specification,reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to an improvement in bluing-packages formercantile and laundry purposes, and is intended to be employed in thepreparation and use of bluing or indigo in liquid form.

In sections where what is known as hard water is employed for washingpurposes bluing is used in liquid form almost exclusively, the liquidbeing more readily mixed and less likely to cause the clothing to spotthan the other forms in which it is employed. The demand for the liquidpreparation has been very extensive, especially in northern latitudes,and has been supplied by goods bottled and packed in the customary way.Much inconvenience, however, has been experienced by manufacturers anddealers on account of the liquid being congealed by frost and theconsequent destruction of the bottles and the disfigurement and lossincident to leakage and breakage. Another serious inconvenience has beenthe dificulty in furnishing the goods, the price being necessarily solow that the cost of hottles, boxes, transportation, and other itemsincident to the necessity of using bottles in large numbers haverendered it impracticable to produce and sell the article except undervery embarrassing restrictions, which have materially interfered withthe growth of the art. All of these objections and inconveniences aresubstantially met and obviated by my invention, the object of which isto provide a pack age which is of convenient size and shape, which issafe, economical, and convenient, and which in the hands of the consumermay be used effectively to perform all the functions of the mostimproved bottle now known without being open, in the hands of themanufacturer and dealer, to the objections above recited.

The invention consists in suitably arranging within an appropriatereceptacle a bottle and a number of small boxes or packages of drygranulated or pulverized bluin g or indigo, the

contents of each of the'packages being adapted to the capacity of thebottle, so that the contents of each of the packages will make a bottleof liquid bluin g of the proper shade.

Hercto i" ore various bl uin gpackages have been made, one of whichconsisted in a small cylindrical box composed of an upper and lowersection. The bluin g was put in the upper section, which, when the lowersection was removed, could be inserted in the mouth of a bottlecontaiuin g water. The bluing dropped by its own gravity into the water,whereby liquid bluing was formed. This could be discharged through anorifice in the top of the upper section of the box. This box was sold asa box of dry bluing per so, and if the purchaser preferred to use itinconnect-ion with a bottle it could be done. A commercial package hasalso been constructed, not for laundry bluing, but for medicinalbeverages, consisting of a recepta cle, a number of small packages, anda bottle, each package holding a quantity of one ingredient adapted to aspecified portion of a liquid to be taken from the bottle, the two beingmixed in a third vessel, not supplied by the package.

Figure l is a plan view, with the side re moved, of a package containingan embodiment of the elements of the invention. Fig. 2 is a similarview, showing the invention in a modified form. Fig. 3 is a top view ofFi 1, with cover removed. Fig. at is a detached sectional view of thecork d.

In Fi 1 of the drawings, A represents a box or receptacle dividedvertically by the partition B into two compartments, (0 b, one of whichis intended to receive the bottle I) and the other the small boxes orpackages of dry bluing E. The boxes or packages E contain each a chargefor the bottle ID-that is to say, such quantity of dry bluing as willmake a quantity of liquid bluing of the best shade, equal to thecapacity of the bottle.

The dry bluing may be of any kind or form; but I prefer to make itgranulated, the grains or particles to be about the size of ordinaryrifle-powder, as by so doing I am enabled to facilitate its being pouredinto the bottle. The quantity used in the charges will depend upon thejudgment of the producer. I prefer to use a charge of about two drainsfor an tight-ounce bottle, the bluing being granulated, as aforesaid.

By preference I use cylindrical wooden boxes to contain the charges, butthey may be inclosed in paper or in any other way, as may be desired.

In the instance shown in Fig. 1 boxes are used, and are arranged inthree tiers, one upon the other, there being four boxes in each tier.

Thus twelve boxes, each containing a proper charge, are presented, witha suitably-constructed bottle, in one package, the single package beingequal to twelve bottles of liquid blumg.

The package E may be of any suitable construction or shape; but it ispreferred that its mouth be smaller than that of the bottle, so that.the contents can be transferred to the bottle without loss orannoyance. It is also preferred to make the mouth of the bottle dishedor concave for similar reasons.

The cork or stopper d of the bottle is provided with a central verticalaperture, 0, and

on its top with the metal cap f, having aper lid, in which the packagesof bluing are placed, all arranged as shown in said Fig. 2.

The manner of using the invention will be readily understood. Thecontents of a package are emptied into the bottle, when the bottle isfilled with water and the bluing dissolved, the operation being repeatedas often as necessary.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. The commercial package consisting of a box containing two or morepackages of granulated or powdered bluing and a bottle, the contents ofeach packageand the capacity of the bottle being relatively such thatthe bottle filled with water and the contents of a package constitute apackage of liquid bluing of due strength ready for use, substantially asset forth.

2. The package for producing liquid bluing herein set forth, consistingin a bottle and two or more boxes of powdered or granulated bluing, theboxes having mouths, adapted to fit into that of the bottle, thecapacity of the bottleand the contents of each of the boxes being suchas to make, when the latter is combined with the bottle full of water, abottle of liquid bluing, all inclosed in one box, for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in bluing-packages,as above described, I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day ofSeptember, 1878.

l HENRY SAWYER.

Witnesses:

O. F. BROWN, CARROLL D. WRIGHT.

